Dipper-handle.



PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

I attomnu Q H CHANDLER DIPPER HANDLE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1901.

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ORVIN II. CHANDLER, OF CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS L. W. BAILEY, OF CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

DIPPER-HANDLE To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORvIN H. CHANDLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olinton, in the county of Laurens and State of South Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dipper -Handles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a handle for a dipper or other cooking utensils of that type provided with a guard whereby water or other liquids is prevented from flowing down the handle into the vessel containing the dipper.

The invention has for one of its objects to improve and simplify the construction of de vices of this character so as to be compara tively easy and inexpensive to manufacture and highly effective in use.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a guardfor a dipper handle or the like which has the double purpose of acting as a holder in preventing the dipper from slipping into the 'vessel with which it is used and to shed off the water or other liquid that runs off from the wet hand of the user so as to pass down the outside instead of inside the vessel. 5

With these objects and others in view, as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates certain of the embodiments of the invention :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ladle equipped with. the improved handle. Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the handle, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing a modified form. Fig. 4 is a further modification in which the guard is in the nature of an attachment. Fig. 5 is a still further modification. Fig. '6 is a transverse section on line 6.6 of Fig. 2. c Fig. 7 is a similar view on line 77 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a ladle or dipper that is equipped with a handle B which may be made of wood,,metal or any other suitable material and of any desired form. At a suitable point inwardly from the free end of the handle is a guard C that extends entirely around the handle and has its under side shaped into a lip or spout l. Preferably the guard is inclined to aline passing Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 5, 1907. Serial No. 377,373.

Patented March 31, 1908.

transversely through the handle and the side nearest to the part of the handle gripped in the hand is hollowed out so as to form a concavity or trough, as indicated at 2 in Figs. 2 and 6, which trough runs into the spout 1. By prolonging the spout as shown the same acts. as a hook, whereby the ladle can be held in a vessel without slipping entirely into the same. in this manner any water or other liquid that runs off the hand of the user will be shed from the handle by collecting in the trough of the guard and running out of the spout 1. Since the spout engages on the outside of the vessel, it is obvious that the water will not run into the latter.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the wooden or other handle'is cut or molded with a guard in which the spout or lip is eliminated and in'its stead a hook 3 is provided that is arranged behind the guard at the under side .of the handle.

The guard may be formed as an attachment so that it can be used in connection on handles of clippers or other utensils already in use. This attachment comprises preferably a rubber ring 4 that has its front side concaved to collect the water, which concavity discharges into a spout 5, as shown in Fig. 7. If desired, a metal reinforce 6, as shown in Fig. 4 and by dotted lines in Fig. 7 may be employed in connection with the ring and preferably embedded therein. The reinforce has a h1g6 which receives a tack 6 to secure the attachment to the handle.

When the handle is made of metal the guard can be formed by making an outwardly extending circumferential crease as indicated by 7, in Fig. 5. In connection therewith is a piece of metal 8 soldered or otherwise secured behind the guard towards the bottom of the handle, which metal piece is formed into a combined hook and spout, and as indicated has the same function as the spout, one as shown in Fig. 1.

By providing a handle with a guard From the foregoing description, taken in connection withthe accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and While I have described the principle of operation of the invention together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that from the trough, said spout projecting outthe device shown is merely illustrative and wardly from the handle to constitute means that such changes may be made when defor holding the utensil in a vessel.

sired as are within the scope of the claim. In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature 5 Having thus described the invention, what i in presence of two witnesses.

is claimed, is

A utensil handle, an annular guard there- ORVIN CHANDLER on having a trough on the side presented to Witnesses: the gripping portion of the handle, and a J. A. BAILEY, 10 spout by which the liquid is discharged N. E. DILLARD. 

